Re: [PATCH 0/4] system: Forbid alloca()

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:

> Eradicate alloca() uses on system code, then enable
> -Walloca to prevent new ones to creep back in.

Should we also mention it in style.rst:

  Use of the ``malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign``
  APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines,

>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (4):
>   hw/gpio/pca9552: Avoid using g_newa()
>   backends/tpmL Avoid using g_alloca()
>   tests/unit/test-char: Avoid using g_alloca()
>   buildsys: Prohibit alloca() use on system code
>
>  meson.build                 | 4 ++++
>  backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c | 4 ++--
>  hw/gpio/pca9552.c           | 2 +-
>  tests/unit/test-char.c      | 3 +--
>  4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro